The office is finished! Well, except that I wan to add some more decorations here and there so I’ll only be showing my desk/space. Tyler’s space is nowhere near done. But I’m glad he took the time to straighten out all of his PC computer cords & tried to make them less visible.

Before Picture:

I’ve had this desk since I was a teenager. We decided to paint it since there were nail polish stains – what can you expect from a teenager?!

After Picture:

I was going to get new knobs but then thought we would save money and painted them light blue. I found a frame I had and decided to frame wrapping paper & spray paint the wall art (stencil) onto it.

We purchased the wall art from Target last year on sale – I love Umbra products! We spray painted them black & then taped card stock that I had leftover from college behind them to give it color.

I was so excited when I found a cute small chalkboard that I forgot I had. Tyler worked at a framing company before & brought it home one day since they were going to throw it away. I painted the frame hot pink so it has a nice rustic look to it.

I discovered all these canvas boards that we purchased in college. I had some money to use and could only be used at the bookstore. So when the school year was coming to an end I went crazy and bought a lot of boards thinking I would want to use them in the future. This is one of those moments where I want to thank the old college Steph for doing that! It still doesn’t make up for the college Steph spending all her loan money on ridiculous stuff and now I’m paying it off.

Saving money & re-using things can be a lot of FUN!